Wars leave deep scars in the memories of all who have lived through them, but the place that was meant to keep Alan Kelly safe from the bombs became his worst nightmare. Aged 90, he returns to the Lake District orphanage where he spent four years as a child evacuee during World War Two.
Alan Kelly was taken to Cumbria from Liverpool aged six in 1941 and spent four years at Hawes End, an orphanage on the shores of Derwentwater near Keswick.
"What happened here, people would have been put in prison for it, for the way children were treated," he says.
The memories of what happened still haunt him, led to a rift with his mother and he has spent much of his life trying to forgive her for sending him there.
"My mother didn't know what to do," he says. "My older sister could look after my younger brother, but at that stage could not look after both of us at the same time."
